How do I fix the extra spaces forms cause inside of tables?

Posted September 4, 2004

I learned a number of things today that I had never encountered before. I was working the EVS Minder interface, trying to finish that up at Esysdesign. I have been having some problems with repeating background graphics and surround graphics shifting when a dynamic HTML is included in a file using the Smarty templating system. The shifting was no more than 4 pixels total, on top and bottom of where the files was being inserted.

The protocol that my co-worker and I have adopted when dealing with form tags is to put them just inside of the body tags of an HTML page because when nested inside of a table, strange shifting happens.

It then stuck me that all of these pages had form fields, and that there might be default padding in the <form> selector. I went into the style sheet, set the margin and padding to 0 like should be done with a number of selectors. This totally eliminated my problem.